> Richard Gooch <rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca>:> > Repeat after me: Linus is a bastard. Linus doesn't care.> > Fine. We all know Linus is a bastard. > > If that's so, then why are the likes of Jeff Garzik and Al Viro > spending so much effort trying to make *me* into the bad guy?

I can't speak for Jeff. Compared to me Linus is downright nice,kind and touchy-feely guy. I'm not. I don't like manipulativearseholes. I _despise_ inept manipulative arseholes and I reallycan't stand demagogy - what with a massive overdose of that inschool years (Soviet Union, early 80s - 'nuff said).

Your habit of claiming completely unsubstantiated credentials alsodoesn't help. Let me spell it out - your pseudo-phylosophicalessays are handwaving at best and deliberate dishonesty at worst.If you expect respect for them - you are looking in the wrongplace. You don't understand how kernel development works - thatmuch had been made obvious for everyone by the last couple of months.And yet you don't hesitate to plug holes in your proposals with emptypreaching ex cathedra and massive demagogy.

I had seen such guys in Uni. Usually they taught Marxism-Leninism,History of Party, Philosophy, etc. Nobody with a shred of clue andself-respect had touched them with a ten-feet pole. Excuse me forbeing not too happy to see that type again.